Your teacher has assigned you to write a research paper on the specific jazz songs used by f. scott fitzgerald in his novel, the great gatsby. if you began your research by using an internet database, which search would be most for finding useful sources for this topic?
a) famous novelists and novels about the jazz age
b) articles on the life and times of f. scott fitzgerald
c) literary criticism of f. scott fitzgerald's novels and poems
d) jazz music quoted or referred to in literature from the 1920's

one context clue that me find the meaning of luxuriance was that the base word of luxuriance is luxury, so i think that luxuriance means something that is luxury, or something luxurious.

the answer is b. legendary founder of thebes

d. must, like a wh_re, unpack my heart with words

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.